Andrew BoostsWithWildAbandonI have thoughts on the Dungeon Crawler Carl series and they are only somewhat positive.
https://sheep.horse/2026/3/i_have_thoughts_on_the_dungeon_crawler_carl_series.html
Adam Varn@sheephorse
Your points about the series are valid in the sense that it is incredibly, almost cartoonishly violent. However, having read all of the books so far, I will say that it takes a tone/story shift in IIRC book 6 to actually have some direction for where the story was going overall. Some characters get better fleshed out and it’s still super violent but it gets…violent for a reason? Don’t expect a grand shift but it become less like Duke Nukem later on
Your points about the series are valid in the sense that it is incredibly, almost cartoonishly violent. However, having read all of the books so far, I will say that it takes a tone/story shift in IIRC book 6 to actually have some direction for where the story was going overall. Some characters get better fleshed out and it’s still super violent but it gets…violent for a reason? Don’t expect a grand shift but it become less like Duke Nukem later on
@hotsauce @sheephorse one thing I did like about the series that I didn’t mention was the progression across books as the background plot of the game show unfolds. You can really tell it is going somewhere (albeit very slowly), which is more than I can say for some long running series of books.